Help removing dust cap

[ebygum]

I'm rebuilding the front suspension of my 78 B and can't figure out how to remove the dust cap to get at the wheel bearings. Could someone enlighten me? Car has wire wheels.

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[David_DuBois]

I assume you are talking about wire wheels. If so, there is a 5/16 - 24 stud on the end of the cap that you can thread a nut onto. Once the nut is in place, hook something behind it and pull the dust cap out. If it is reluctant to come out with hand pulling, grasp the end of your hooked implement with some vice grips and use a screwdriver to lever it out. This is a quick and dirty way to get it out. You may want to make up a tool that can be threaded on the stud and attached to a slide hammer or some other way to means to pull the cap out.
Good luck,

 

[tony barnhill]

& the long head nut on the ppassenger rear of the engine is threaded on the end not attached to a head stud to fit the dust cap....I've taken a spare head stud & one of those nut & put them together with a "T" handle welded on the opposite end of the stud...all I do is screw that tool onto the stud on the dust cap & pul.